<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Hi all,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>We have put a production release candidate up for download (<A href="http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/download.html"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000EB">http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/download.html</FONT></A>). It would help us out if people would try it out and see if it all works okay. Major changes from the 1.2422 release include: incorporation of what were previously "experimental features", such as morphing between volume data sets; major revamp of the Volume Viewer interface; display of dendrograms in Multalign Viewer; use of rotamer libraries in swapping residue side chains and the ability evaluate possible swaps based on clashing, fit into density maps, or hydrogen-bond formation. A more exhaustive list of features is here: <A href="http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/relnotes/snapshot.html"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000EB">http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/relnotes/snapshot.html</FONT></A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 19px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">--Eric</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 19px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 19px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> Eric Pettersen</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> UCSF Computer Graphics Lab</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> <A href="http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000EB">http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu</FONT></A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>